Ricky Gervais strikes gold again, with "Extras", which is just as funny as "The Office". Gervais portrays the lives of extras on a film set and how they are often treated like dirt, but it is about so much more than that!!!! It is in the brilliant discourses between the characters that this show shines, because in their inane, irreverent discussions do we see an honest insight into what really matters. Because that is what this show is - the lead character, Andy, is by no means perfect - he's selfish, self centred and overly judgemental - but that just makes him more human because he is not one of those cardboard cutout pretty boys in so many other shows. After seeing the first series, where he interacts with real stars in the hope of getting noticed, you will want to see more! The Samuel L. Jackson episode is simply comic gold!
Reviews
2 Reviews
Extras
(2005–2007)
Simply brilliant - actually rivals The Office in terms of laughs!!!
22 October 2006
Hybrid
(1997 Video)
Yes, it does star one of the Barrymore clan! No, that does not make it good!
29 July 2006
John Blyth Barrymore is to the Barrymore's what Eric was to the Douglas clan! A talentless hack who just appears in movies because of his family name. This movie is a shocker! A cheap, inept alien rip-off which has the obligatory nude scenes to appeal to the men! Poor special effects mean that you barely even see the monster and the most shocking acting known to man makes the people on Dawsons creek seem like great actors! One can only hope that all copies of this movie will be destroyed one day like what happened with the atari 1600 game "ET" and then this movie can disappear, and the actors can pretend it never happened!
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